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Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 171 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 12 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 23 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 34 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 45 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 56 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 67 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 78 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 89 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 910 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 1011 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 1112 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 1314 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 1415 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 1617 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 1818 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 2020 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 3434 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 3737 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 3939 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 4040 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 4141 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 4343 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Photo by Michael Shaffer

Gallery Goodwood Revival Photo 4747 of 49Jump into the Goodwood Revival time machine and take yourself back to the period 1948 to 1966. Everybody comes in proper costume, all the cars are authentic and some of the real drivers from back in the day are there. It is easily the best historic motorsports event in the world.

Photo by Michael Shaffer

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Time machines: Two huge photo galleries from the 2016 Goodwood Revival

Yes, it really is as good as they say it is

September 13, 2016

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The Goodwood Revival is simply the best vintage motorsport celebration the world may ever know.

It’s not just the cars -– Grand Prix racers, sports cars, Ferrari GTOs fer goodness sake -- that make Goodwood great.The cars, while extraordinary (three GTOs out on the track! One punted off into the gravel!), are only a part of a much larger and far more elaborate vintage motorsport dream, and everyone, all 10 or 20 thousand attendees, are playing along.

Not only did the generous and benevolent Lord March, on whose magnificent estate is held this revival, re-create everything on the track and the surrounding grounds down to the teakwood sun chairs scattered in perfect convenience all over the acres of beautiful green lawn, but the people, the fans, almost every single person who attends this fabulous and historical happening, come dressed in colorful period costumes that even big-budget Hollywood extras couldn’t match. There are military men and women in uniform, civilian gentlemen in tweed, ladies in seamed nylons and little babies being pushed around in period-correct prams. The whole thing is like stepping into the portal of a time machine back into immediate post-war England (except that there’s free wifi).

Sure, it’s a somewhat rosy view of that time. Unlike the real post-war England, there are no shortages of anything at the Goodwood Revival. There’s ham and champagne aplenty (as there should be everywhere, of course), no one’s on strike and there is perfect harmony among the classes. But this is fun nostalgia, accurate about the good things we want to remember.

And they are good. The vendors that line the grounds don’t just hawk their wares out of cheap plastic tents. Well, some have tents, but inside they’re done up in perfect period decor. A company that does Porsche 356 engine restoration re-created an entire early-‘50s garage (pronounced “gare-raj”) and dressed all the mechanics and service lads in period-correct coveralls. On the track, when the gentlemen racers passed one another, they waved. A motorcycle racer patted his competitor on the back and gave a thumbs up when he passed as both were going about a hundred miles an hour.

The whole thing’s a giant costume ball where the dancing takes place on the front straight approaching the chicane.

At Goodwood it has always been thus. The Goodwood estate traces its history back centuries.

“The family’s been here for 300 years,” said the perennially affable Mark Featherstone, general manager of Goodwood.

They had horse racing here before cars were invented and they still have horse racing today. They also have golf and they used to have shooting (ed: and they still do!).

“It was founded on passion and remains driven by that to this day,” said Featherstone.

How did the car racing get started? During WWII there were airplanes.

“The large field hosted Spitfires,” said Featherstone. “The Battle of Britain was commanded partly from here.”

The grass airfield had three runways, still does, and a perimeter road. Yes, a perimeter road. Are you thinking what we’re thinking?

“Race you round the field,” you could just imagine one Squadron Leader saying to another. That road just cried out to be raced on.

Period costumes extended to 1966, well beyond tweed coats. Photo by Michael Shaffer

At the end of the war, Lord March’s grandfather, Freddie March, took that perimeter road and turned it into Goodwood Motor Circuit. In 1948 the racing started. Between 1948 and its closing to modern race cars in 1966, Goodwood held 870 races, up to and including Grands Prix.

While the circuit remained open to car manufacturers for development and testing, and while several endurance records were set there, racing didn’t return to Goodwood until after the idea of vintage racing had taken hold. The Goodwood Festival of Speed, held in the spring, was launched in 1993. It is run as a hillclimb, on the other side of the estate, basically up Lord March’s driveway. With the success of the Festival of Speed, Lord March added the Revival five years later. Historic motorsports has never been the same.

This year there were races and parades all three days, Friday through Sunday, rain or shine. The cars featured highlight those that competed at the circuit in its original 1948-1966 glory days. There are races for all of them, including motorcycles. Here are just a handful of the track events at this year’s Revival: